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Meaning of run out

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

run out

Pronunciation:

verb

Definitions

  1. To use up; to consume all of something.

    Example: If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream.

  2. To expire; to come to an end; to be completely used up or consumed.

    Example: My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now.

  3. To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout)

    Example: Jackson was run out for a duck in the first over.

  4. To be got out in this way.

noun

Definitions

  1. Something that has been run out.

    Example: The freeway guardrail runout around this object is shorter than recommended.

  2. A run out, a running out. The method of getting out in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.

  3. A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.

  4. Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.